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Start with you since we are all i find that rhetoric not at all helpful. we have immigration debate where people are working good faith. i know for a fact they are. we have a black president. massachusetts i have a black governor. we have a supreme court justice. we have -- race is always an issue in our country i think quite frankly we are handling it and moving forward in a thoughtful, judicious manner. how do these type of comments help the conversation? >> with all due respect i think it's easy for those of us who are not here tonight who aren't friend to make statements like that. this is...

Start with you since we are all i find that rhetoric not at all helpful. we have immigration debate where people are working good faith. i know for a fact they are. we have a black president. massachusetts i have a black governor. we have a supreme court justice. we have -- race is always an issue in our country i think quite frankly we are handling it and moving forward in a thoughtful, judicious manner. how do these type of comments help the conversation? >> with all due respect i think it's easy for those of us who are not here tonight who aren't friend to make statements like that. this is...

It's true that the democrats don't applaud for a lo of things that ran ald reagan and george bush said. the republicans don't applaud for what barack obama said. they sat like statues for the moving invocations of those shooting victims and that woman voted down in florida, i think they look bad not applauding for those things and history won't judge them well. >> thank you very much. we have a great article as well. you will review his performance. talk with you soon. coming up, our "news nation" gut check. do you think the president can accomplish what he laid out in the state of the union. ...

Inclues seive. do they have a point? >> i think that monica has a point. >> and i think that kirsten has a point as well. i certainly disassociate myself from everything he said, horrible and wrong, but it's pretty standard christian orthodoxy, if you're going to have pastor give invocations, ministers or catholic priests, for example, chances are they're going to believe-- >> or a muslim imam. >> so my point, if you're going to the trouble of having a religious leader speak unless you get somebody who is really sort of in the mainline protestant denominations that are supportive of gay marria...

Gay, said to his gay law clerk, don't know anybody who's gay. today everyone knows somebody who's gay, a cousin or brother or something. >> even there, that the proper way of putting it is one should be able to be marry who one polices, we're talking about gay marriages. >> i want to show the totality of invocations of marriage from both the nominee and the republican party and his running mate right after we take this break. ♪ [ male announcer ] from our nation's networks... ♪ ...to our city streets... ♪ ...to skies around the world... ♪ ...northrop grumman's security solutions are in...